What it looks like to be grateful for a body that mostly works

Health gratitude is hard to feel until it is too late. The point of going through reflections like the ones below — while everything is roughly working — is to notice the body and the health you have now, before they need to demand your attention.

Eight short reflections on your health

Each one focused on a single, specific thing your body is currently doing right.

• Competence present
• Functional biotin
• Healthy histamine response
• Proficiency possible
• Healthy gut microbiome
• Functional magnesium
• Thirst quenched
• Gratitude rising

Adjacent: senses and being alive in a body

Closely related — the texture of being in this body day to day.

• Feeling with awareness
• Smelling daffodil
• Tasting grandmother's recipe
• Hearing clarinet

Browse by category

• 10 reasons to be grateful for your body and senses
• 10 reasons to be grateful for your family
• 10 reasons to be grateful for your health
• 10 reasons to be grateful for what you understand
• 10 reasons to be grateful for love and partnership
• 10 reasons to be grateful for your mind and memory
• 10 reasons to be grateful for what keeps you safe
• 10 reasons to be grateful for what you can do
• 10 reasons to be grateful for your wider world
• 10 reasons to be grateful for your work and purpose

Other long gratitude lists

• 100 reasons to be grateful right now
• 30 days of gratitude: a gentle daily challenge
• Morning gratitude: 20 short reflections to start the day
• Evening gratitude: quiet reflections to end the day

Turn the list into a habit

Lists are useful once. A practice is useful daily. Grateful Today sends one prompt a day pulled from the same deck these reflections come from — short, specific, and easy to skip when the day is already full.